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SKIT
Definition of SKIT
noun
A short comic performance done by amateurs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SKIT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IKST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SKIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found SKIT?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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